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Political Conflict and Violence

Title Sort ascending Investigators Project Period
Western Tools Short of War: Impact Assessment of Selected Use Cases in Ukraine Egle Murauskaite
Weapons Availability and Civil War Onset Barnett S. Koven -
Violent Non-state Actors and Contested Space Operations Amy Pate, Barnett S. Koven -
Turning to Terrorism: Ethnic, Religious, and Extremist Organizations Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Victor Asal -
Tracking Sympathy and Support of Muslims for Terrorism in the United States Clark McCauley -
Tracking Sympathy and Support of Muslims for Terrorism in Muslim Countries and in the United Kingdom Clark McCauley -
Tracking Cartels: Exploiting Open Sources to Identify Trends Marcus A. Boyd, Samuel D. Henkin -
The Use of Violence by Ethnopolitical Organizations Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Victor Asal -
The Social Determinants of Terrorist Organizations' Resilience in Latin America Johanna Birnir -
The Impact of Israeli Counterterrorism Interventions on Rate and Intensity of Terrorist Activity: Hazard Modeling and Time Series Approaches Arie Kruglanski -
Terrorist and Extremist Organizations (TEO) Database Jonathan Wilkenfeld, R. Karl Rethemeyer -
Terrorism and Targeted Violence in the United States Erin Miller, Michael Jensen -
State Response and Terrorist Activity Clark McCauley -
Shadows of Violence: Empirical Assessments of Threats, Coercion and Gray Zones Amy Pate, Barnett S. Koven -
Resources and Resilience: A Computational Model of Strategic Influence -
Radicalizing the Poor: Understanding the Influence of Service Provision on Popular Support for and Participation in Violent Political Groups Shawn Flanigan -
Predisposing Root Causes of Terrorism Gary LaFree -
Patterns of Radicalization in Political Activism Donatella della Porta, Manuela Caiani -
Mobilization For and Against Terrorism in the Muslim World Clark McCauley, Mansoor Moaddel, Mohammed Hafez -
Measuring Up: Aligning SOF and Interagency CT Efforts Across the Tactical, Operational and Strategic Levels Barnett S. Koven -
Martyrs without Borders: Iraq's Foreign Fighters and the Third Generation of Global Jihad Mohammed Hafez -
Guerilla Insurgency: The Springboard to Terrorism? Mark Lichbach -
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration Erin Miller -
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Erin Miller, Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan -
Global Responses to Asymmetric Threats Amy Pate, Salma Bouziani, Madeline Romm, Sean Doody, Elizabeth Radziszewski
Empirical Assessment of Domestic Radicalization (EADR) Michael Jensen, Gary LaFree -
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah Barnett S. Koven, Samuel D. Henkin -
Developing Academic Partnerships and Collaborative Research on Countering Violent Extremism in Malaysia and Southeast Asia Amy Pate, Barnett S. Koven, William Braniff -
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex Gary LaFree, Erin Miller -
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure (CT NEADS) Barnett S. Koven -
Community-oriented Policing and Community Engagement in Benin Barnett S. Koven -
Climate Change and Terrorism: A Call to Action
Building a Unified Infrastructure for Data Integration on Political Violence and Conflict Brandon Behlendorf, Gary LaFree -
Bargaining on and off the Battlefield: The Bargaining Model of War and Negotiations with the Afghan Taliban Barnett S. Koven -
A Climate of Terror: Approaches to the Study of Climate Change and Terrorism Marcus A. Boyd, Samuel D. Henkin -
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Why Split? Organizational Splits among Ethnopolitical Organizations in the Middle East 2012-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder 2006-08-01T12:00:00 Book
Why ISIS' Message Resonates: Leveraging Islam, Socio-Political Catalysts and Adaptive Messaging 2016-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Why Do Some Organizations Kill While Others Do Not: An Examination of Middle Eastern Operations 2014-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict 2008-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Who Is More Violent in Extremist Groups? A Comparison of Leaders and Followers 2019-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
When Women Fight: Unemployment, Territorial Control and the Prevalence of Female Combatants in Insurgent Organizations 2019-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
What Explains Ethnic Organizational Violence? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Russia 2015-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Western Muslims Volunteering to fight in Syria and Iraq: Why do they go, and what should we do? 2015-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
War Crimes in Ukraine: In Search of a Response 2022-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
War and Political Rights in Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War 1980-88 2021-04-13T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Voting in the Shadow of Violence: Electoral Politics and Conflict in Peru 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Violence in Peru 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Violence and the Dialectics of Landscape: Memorialization in Cambodia 2014-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Understanding Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism 2017-11-01T12:00:00 Book
Uncomfortably Numb: The Disconnect between Individual Human Rights Perceptions and State Human Rights Practices 2021-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
U.S. Military Training Assistance to Ukraine 2023-02-27T12:00:00 START Reports
U.S. Assistance to Ukraine in the Information Space: Intelligence, Cyber, and Signaling 2023-02-28T12:00:00 START Reports
U.S. Arms Transfers to Ukraine: Impact Assessment 2023-01-12T12:00:00 START Reports
Tyrants and Terrorism: Why Some Autocrats are Terrorized While Others are Not 2014-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Transnational Jihadism & Civil Wars 2017-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Toward a Psychology of Humiliation in Asymmetric Conflict 2017-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Toward a Criminology of Terrorism 2023-06-16T12:00:00 Book
The Use of Violence by Ethnopolitical Organizations in the Middle East 2007-02-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
The Use of Force in Foreign Policy 2017-07-27T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Transnational Security Threat from D-Company 2015-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Structure of Success: How the Internal Distribution of Power Drives Armed Group Behavior and National Movement Effectiveness 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Russian Interventions in South Ossetia and Crimea Compared: Military Performance, Legitimacy and Goals 2014-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Puzzle of Nonviolence in Western Sahara 2016-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Political Effectiveness of Non-State Violence: A Two-Level Framework to Transform a Deceptive Debate 2013-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Paradox of the Heavy-handed Insurgent: Public Support for the Taliban Among Afghan Pashtuns. 2022-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Book
The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements 2015-10-01T12:00:00 Book
The Link Between Age and Extremism 2023-03-15T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Lessons of 20 Years of Counterinsurgency Research 2023-03-23T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Intersection of Homicide, Terrorism, and Violent Extremism 2018-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Impact of British Counterterrorist Strategies on Political Violence in Northern Ireland: Comparing Deterrence and Backlash Models 2009-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Future is a Moving Target: Predicting Political Instability 2019-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Evolution of Prosociality and Parochialism After Violence 2016-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Emerging Red-Green Alliance: Where Political Islam Meets the Radical Left 2013-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Effect of Interventions on Functional Impairment in Youth Exposed to Mass Trauma: A Meta-Analysis 2019-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Dog that Doesn't Bark 2013-01-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
The Discourse and Practice of ‘Heroic Resistance’ in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – The Case of Hamas 2012-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Diffusion and Permeability of Political Violence in North and West Africa 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Challenges of Conflict Management: A Case Study of Sri Lanka 2006-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorists, Radicals, and Activists: Distinguishing between Countering Violent Extremism and Preventing Extremist Violence, and Why It Matters 2020-02-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Terrorists Next Door? A Comparison of Mexican Drug Cartels and Middle Eastern Terrorist Organizations 2012-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorist Attacks against Religious Targets in the United States, 1970 – 2017 2018-10-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Sub-state Actors' Threats to International Security: Religious Extremists and Terrorist Groups 2019-03-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Street-level Repression: Protest, Policing, and Dissent in Uganda 2020-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Stochastic Opponent Modeling Agents: A Case Study with Hezbollah 2008-04-01T12:00:00 Conference Paper
Stand Down: A Journal of Applied Communication Research Forum on Extremism and White Nationalism in the United States Military 2022-11-02T12:00:00 Journal Article
Southeast Asia after the Caliphate: Identifying Spatial Trends in Terrorism and Radicalization in Malaysia 2020-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Social Norms after Conflict Exposure and Victimization by Violence: Experimental Evidence from Kosovo 2018-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Social Control, Trade Openness and Human Trafficking 2017-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Shifting Eastern Mediterranean Alliances 2016-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Seriously Not All Right: Five Wars in Ten Years 2014-05-01T12:00:00 Book
Russian Women in the Face of War Against Ukraine 2024-03-26T12:00:00 Report
Russian Nuclear Rhetoric 2014-2023: Transatlantic Differences in Threat Perception 2024-03-14T12:00:00 Journal Article
Russian Aggression in Ukraine: Is There a Solution? 2016-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Risk Tolerance during Conflict: Evidence from Aleppo, Syria 2019-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Rethinking Violence: States and Non-State Actors in Conflict 2010-08-01T12:00:00 Book
Rethinking Transnational Terrorism: An Integrated Approach 2020-02-01T12:00:00 Report
Religion and Political Mobilization 2019-03-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Regime Type and Terrorist Attacks 2015-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations: The Military, Society, Politics, and Modern War 2020-10-01T12:00:00 Book
Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win 2017-05-01T12:00:00 Book
Re-Thinking Climate Security 2023-04-11T12:00:00 Research Brief
Quantifying Gray Zone Conflict: (De-)escalatory Trends in Gray Zone Conflicts in Colombia, Libya and Ukraine 2017-06-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Quantifying Gray Zone Conflict Codebook 2017-06-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Putting Terrorism in Context: Lessons from the Global Terrorism Database (Contemporary Terrorism Studies) 2015-01-01T12:00:00 Book
Psychological Correlates of Support for Compromise: A Polling Study of Jewish-Israeli Attitudes toward Solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 2005-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Protestors, Terrorists or Something Else? How to Think about Dissident Groups 2019-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Protecting the U.S. Government from Far-Right Insider Threats 2022-09-01T12:00:00 Report
Preventing Mass Atrocities: Policies and Practices 2018-09-01T12:00:00 Book
Potential for radicalization amongst Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon: Risks, factors, and implications 2018-07-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Politically motivated violent extremism 2012-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Political Fragmentation and Alliances among Armed Non-state Actors in North and Western Africa (1997–2014) 2017-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Political Explanations 2005-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Political Exclusion, Oil, and Ethnic Armed Conflict 2014-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Political Demography of Conflict in Mali 2018-06-01T12:00:00 Report
Political Action as a Function of Grievances, Risk, and Social Identity: An Experimental Approach 2018-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Phnom Penh during the Cambodian Genocide: A Case of Selective Urbicide 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Peru Conflict Profile 2015-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Peace and Conflict 2010 2009-11-01T12:00:00 Book
Peace and Conflict 2008 2007-06-01T12:00:00 Book
Party of Islamic liberation in the 'Stans. Review of Emmanuel Karagiannis, 'Political Islam in Central Asia' 2010-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Organizational and Institutional Approaches: Social Movement Studies Perspectives on Political Violence 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Nonviolent Resistance and Prevention of Mass Killings During Popular Uprisings 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Report
Networks, Power, and the Effects of Legitimacy in Contentious Politics 2020-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Networks of Cooperation: Rebel Alliances in Fragmented Civil Wars 2019-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Military Counterterrorism Measures, Civil-Military Relations and Democracy: The Cases of Turkey and the US 2018-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Mediating International Crises: Cross-National and Experimental Perspectives 2003-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Mediating International Crises 2006-11-01T12:00:00 Book
Mechanisms of Political Radicalization: Pathways Toward Terrorism 2008-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Measuring Tactical Innovation in Terrorist Attacks 2019-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Lowest of the Low: Why Some Countries Suffer Terrorist Attacks against Schools 2019-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Killing the Messenger: Regime Type as a Determinant of Journalist Killing, 1992-2008 2016-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Killing Range: Explaining Lethality Variance within a Terrorist Organization 2013-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Key Factors in Crisis Escalation 2024-03-19T12:00:00 Journal Article
Jujitsu Politics: Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism 2006-08-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Introducing the ICBe Dataset: Very High Recall and Precision Event Extraction from Narratives about International Crises 2022-07-26T12:00:00 Report
Introducing the AMAR (All Minorities at Risk) Data 2017-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Integrating the Civil–Military Relations Subfield 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Integrating Conflict Event Data 2018-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Insurgencies as Networks of Event Orderings 2018-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Information, Trust, and Power: The Impact of Conflict Histories, Policy Regimes, and Political Institutions on Terrorism 2005-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
India's Experience with Terrorism 2018-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Ideologies that Justify Political Violence 2020-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
How the Replication Debate Applies to Terrorism Studies 2013-12-01T12:00:00 Op-ed
How terrorist actors in Pakistan use nuclear weapons for political influence 2019-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
How Human Boundaries Become State Borders: Radical Flanks and Territorial Control in the Modern Era 2018-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
How effective are our 'better angels'? Assessing country-level declines in homicide since 1950 2015-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Holy Terror and Mass Killings? Reexamining the Motivations and Methods of Mass Casualty Terrorists 2005-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002 to 2022—The Information Lever of Power 2023-07-25T12:00:00 START Reports
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002 to 2022—Legal Approaches 2023-08-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002 to 2022 — The Military Lever of Power 2024-03-27T12:00:00 START Reports
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002 to 2022 2023-01-23T12:00:00 START Reports
Friends in High Places: State Support for Violent and Non-violent Ethnopolitical Organizations 2019-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Fratricidal Rebels: Ideological Extremity and Warring Factionalism in Civil Wars 2020-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Fragile States 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Report
Forecasting the Use of Violence by Ethno–Political Organizations: Middle Eastern Minorities and the Choice of Violence, V. S. Subrahmanian, ed. 2012-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Far-Right Fatal Ideological Violence against Religious Institutions and Individuals in the United States: 1990-2018 2018-10-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Extremes of asymmetric conflict: terrorism and genocide 2012-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Explaining Terrorism: Causes, Processes and Consequences 2013-09-01T12:00:00 Book
Examining Extrajudicial Killings: Discriminant Analyses of Human Rights’ Violations 2019-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Ethnicity and Altruism after Violence: The Contact Hypothesis in Kosovo 2014-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Escalation Management in the Gray Zone 2021-12-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Escalation Management in Gray Zone Crises: The Proxy Factor 2022-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Emulating U.S. Counterinsurgency Doctrine: Barriers for Developing Country Forces, Evidence from Peru 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Election Anxiety is Driving Erdogan’s Decisions in Syria 2018-02-01T12:00:00 Op-ed
Economic Development, Poorly Managed Political Conflict and Terrorism in India 2009-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Dynamic Dimensions of Radicalization and Violent Extremism in Sabah, Malaysia 2021-12-01T12:00:00 Report
Doing Good while Killing: Why Some Insurgent Groups Provide Community Services 2020-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Do Contemporaneous Armed Challenges Affect the Outcomes of Mass Nonviolent Campaigns? 2015-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah, Malaysia 2020-12-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah 2021-12-01T12:00:00 Report
Divergent Axes of Russian Influence in Colombia and Latin America 2019-09-01T12:00:00 White Paper
Discursive Turns and Critical Junctures: Debating Citizenship After the Charlie Hebdo Attacks 2020-05-01T12:00:00 Book
Discrimination, Genocide, and Politicide 2019-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Demystifying Gray Zone Conflict: A Typology of Conflict Dyads and Instruments of Power in Colombia, 2002-present 2016-11-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Democratic Leaders and War: Simultaneously Managing External Conflicts and Domestic Politics 2012-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Democracy, Inclusion and Failure in Counterinsurgency 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Days of Rage: Introducing the NAVCO 3.0 Dataset 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Criminological perspectives on extremist radicalisation and terrorist acts 2023-10-18T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Crime, Conflict, and the Legitimacy Trade-Off: Explaining Variation in Insurgents’ Participation in Crime 2019-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Crime Terror Alliances and the State. Ethnonationalist and Islamist Challenges to Regional Security 2013-05-01T12:00:00 Book
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure 2020-04-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Counter‐terrorism Policies in the Middle East: Why Democracy Has Failed to Reduce Terrorism in the Middle East and Why Protecting Human Rights Might Be More Successful 2020-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Consenting to a Child's Decision to Join a Jihad: Insights from a Survey of Militant Families in Pakistan 2008-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Connecting Adversarial and Environmental Geopolitics in Southeast Asia 2023-04-24T12:00:00 Research Brief
Conflict Changes How People View God 2020-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Comparative Islamist Perspectives on the Politics of Energy in the Middle East and Beyond 2014-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in Southeast Asia 2023-10-09T12:00:00 START Reports
Climate Security in Southeast Asia 2023-04-17T12:00:00 Research Brief
Climate Change and Terrorism: Key Insights 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Climate Change and Terrorism: A Call to Action 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Climate Change and Security 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Civil Action and the Dynamics of Violence 2019-09-01T12:00:00 Book
Charity as Resistance: Connections Between Charity, Contentious Politics, and Terror 2006-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Can Public Health Help Prevent Violent Extremism? Should Public Health Help Prevent Violent Extremism? 2020-02-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Barriers to Special Operations Forces-Led Counterterrorism Effectiveness 2021-11-01T12:00:00 Book
Apparent intended lethality: Toward a model of intent to harm in terrorist bomb attacks 2013-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Anger or Ability: Arguing the Causes of Rebellion 2013-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Analyzing Political and Social Regional Stability with Statistics: Challenges and Opportunities 2010-01-01T12:00:00 White Paper
An Aggregation of Geo-coded Violent and Non-violent Conflict Events 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Conference Paper
Advantages of Syrian Diaspora Aid to Refugees in Middle Eastern States of the Global South 2018-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
A Study of Crisis 2000-01-01T12:00:00 Book
A Climate of Terror? Climate Change as an Indirect Contributor to Terrorism 2022-05-20T12:00:00 Research Brief
A Climate of Terror? Climate Change as a Potential Ideological Driver of Terrorism 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
A Climate of Terror? Climate Change as a Means for Terrorist Exploitation 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
A Climate of Terror? Approaches to the Study of Climate Change and Terrorism 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
“Give Peace a Chance”? Explaining Colombia’s (Failed) Peace Process with the FARC 2016-11-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
‘Nondemocratic Islamists’ and Support for ISIS in the Arab World 2020-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
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Urban U.S. counties hot spots of terror, but rural areas are not exempt
Understanding conflict management in India
UMD Report: Conspiracy theories fueled more terror attacks in 2020
State Department contracts START to provide terrorism data and analysis
START's Clark McCauley to Serve as Editor of New Journal on Asymmetric Conflict
START Symposium showcases impactful research, datasets
START seeking 2014 Outstanding Article Award nominations
START researchers present on the impact of climate change on terrorism
START researchers earn $2.6 million NSF grant to investigate social media’s ability to predict political instability
START researchers co-lead webinar series on security challenges in Malaysia
START researcher appears in documentary on disinformation
START honors International GIS Day teaching about Mali conflict
START Founding Director delivers Sutherland lecture at American Society of Criminology annual meeting
START Announces Fellowships for 2005-06
START Announces 2010-2011 Terrorism Research Awards and Undergraduate Research Program Participants
Researcher Spotlight: Daniella Fridl
Researcher Spotlight: Bob Lamb
Researcher Spotlight: Amy Pate
New START Research Brief: Pathways Towards Radicalization
New Research Brief Released: The Use of Violence by Ethnopolitical Organizations in the Middle East
New report explores steps required to succeed in negotiations with the Afghan Taliban
New FAS study assesses global economic impact of actions taken against Iran
Internships at START Available for Spring 2010
ICONS team releases report on escalation management in gray zone international crises
Have you seen it yet? START Research Review
GRU team gives virtual talk on cartels for National Security Forum
Exciting Winter Courses Now Offered ONLINE
Discussion Point: The Prospective Military Power of Al Qaeda Affiliated Groups in the Syrian Conflict
Discussion Point: The Dog that Doesn't Bark
Database Spotlight: Minorities at Risk Organizational Behavior (MAROB)
Database Spotlight: Government Actions in a Terror Environment-Israel
Call for papers for a special issue of Terrorism and Political Violence on "Criminological approaches to the study of terrorism"
Analyzing peace and civil conflict
Title Sort ascending Job Title Institution
Asal_Victor Victor Asal Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of Public Administration University at Albany, State University of New York
Tyler yates Tyler Yates Researcher, Global Terrorism Database (GTD) University of Maryland
Guarrieri Thomas Guarrieri Director of Undergraduate Studies
Assistant Research Scientist, Unconventional Weapons &
Technology (UWT) Division, START
University of Maryland
Steve Sin Steve S. Sin, Ph.D. Associate Research Scientist & Director, Unconventional Weapons & Technology Division
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, School of International Service, American University
Adjunct Instructor for Forensic Sciences, Oklahoma State University
Chief Academic Officer, Platinum East
University of Maryland
person-default Sheehan Kane Researcher/Data Collection Manager, START University of Maryland
sean doody Sean Doody Senior Researcher, START University of Maryland
Henkin Samuel D. Henkin Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Researcher, START University of Maryland
Salma_Bouziani Salma Bouziani Project Manager/Researcher, START University of Maryland
person-default Rhyner Washburn Research Affiliate University of Maryland
R. Karl Rethemeyer R. Karl Rethemeyer Associate Professor of Public Administration & Policy University at Albany, State University of New York
person-default Peter Simi Associate Professor, Chapman University
Director, Earl Babbie Research Center
Chapman University
Oleksiy Oleksiy Krylyuk Researcher, GTD University of Maryland
Jacome_Michlle Michelle Jacome Operations Officer on International Finance Cooperation at the World Bank
person-default Michael Jensen Research Director and Senior Researcher, START University of Maryland
Erdemandi Max Erdemandi Ph.D. Student, Communication Science and Social Cognition University of Maryland
Boyd_Marcus Marcus A. Boyd Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Director, START
Director of Graduate Studies, START
University of Maryland
Romm madeline Madeline Romm Faculty Specialist University of Maryland
Lindquist Katy Lindquist Principal Research Scientist, NSI Inc.
Sawyer John John Sawyer Director of Strategic Corporate Research Relationships University of Maryland
Lafee Gary LaFree Founding Director, START
Distinguished University Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
University of Maryland
Gary Ackerman Gary Ackerman Associate Professor, SUNY Albany University at Albany, State University of New York
Miller Erin Erin Miller GTD Program Manager, START University of Maryland
Elizabeth Elizabeth Radziszewski Associate Research Scientist, START University of Maryland
person-default Devin Ellis Researcher, ARLIS University of Maryland
McCauley_Clark Clark McCauley Professor of Psychology Bryn Mawr College
Brandon Behlendorf Brandon Behlendorf Assistant Professor, College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity, SUNY Albany University at Albany, State University of New York
person-default Benjamin Evans Faculty Research Assistant, Global Terrorism Database, START University of Maryland
Koven Barnett S. Koven Data Science Manager, Deloitte Government & Public Services
anthony Lemieux Anthony Lemieux Associate Professor of Communication and Lead Researcher of the Transcultural Conflict and Violence Program Georgia State University
Amy Pate Amy Pate START Acting Director University of Maryland
person-default Amanda Quinn Faculty Research Assistant, GTD University of Maryland
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Western Tools Short of War: Impact Assessment of Selected Use Cases in Ukraine
Weapons Availability and Civil War Onset
Violent Non-state Actors and Contested Space Operations
Turning to Terrorism: Ethnic, Religious, and Extremist Organizations
Tracking Sympathy and Support of Muslims for Terrorism in the United States
Tracking Sympathy and Support of Muslims for Terrorism in Muslim Countries and in the United Kingdom
Tracking Cartels: Exploiting Open Sources to Identify Trends
The Youth, Emotional Energy, and Political Violence: The Cases of Egypt and Saudi Arabia Go
The Use of Violence by Ethnopolitical Organizations
The Social Determinants of Terrorist Organizations' Resilience in Latin America
The Impact of Israeli Counterterrorism Interventions on Rate and Intensity of Terrorist Activity: Hazard Modeling and Time Series Approaches
Terrorist and Extremist Organizations (TEO) Database
Terrorism and Targeted Violence in the United States
State Response and Terrorist Activity
Shadows of Violence: Empirical Assessments of Threats, Coercion and Gray Zones
Resources and Resilience: A Computational Model of Strategic Influence
Radicalizing the Poor: Understanding the Influence of Service Provision on Popular Support for and Participation in Violent Political Groups
Predisposing Root Causes of Terrorism
Patterns of Radicalization in Political Activism
Mobilization For and Against Terrorism in the Muslim World
Measuring Up: Aligning SOF and Interagency CT Efforts Across the Tactical, Operational and Strategic Levels
Martyrs without Borders: Iraq's Foreign Fighters and the Third Generation of Global Jihad
Guerilla Insurgency: The Springboard to Terrorism?
GATE-Israel Government Actions in a Terror Environment - Israel (GATE-Israel) Go
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration
Global Terrorism Database (GTD)
Global Responses to Asymmetric Threats
Empirical Assessment of Domestic Radicalization (EADR)
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah
Developing Academic Partnerships and Collaborative Research on Countering Violent Extremism in Malaysia and Southeast Asia
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure (CT NEADS)
Community-oriented Policing and Community Engagement in Benin
Climate Change and Terrorism: A Call to Action
Building a Unified Infrastructure for Data Integration on Political Violence and Conflict
Bargaining on and off the Battlefield: The Bargaining Model of War and Negotiations with the Afghan Taliban
A Climate of Terror: Approaches to the Study of Climate Change and Terrorism